Ice strike events, while not overwhelmingly common, do happen. The Atlantic Cities pulled together some examples from the historical ice-death record in a 2012 post. Among the more horrific: Chicagoan Donald Booth was hit in the head in 1994 by a chunk of ice described to be the size of a microwave. In 1903 a police officer was killed when an icicle fell and cut off the top of his head.